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Audi RS4 Avant

            This RS4 Avant uses a long-roof variation on my DTM sedan chassis. I’ve wanted to build a wagon for some time, and just keep ending up somewhere else. Finally I made myself stick to it :)

As with my Alfa and Merc builds, this has a 7-stud section between the wheel wells and uses a 1 plate vertical offset at the rear wheels to produce a slight downward rake towards the front.

I wasn’t sure the front clip was possible considering the rather specific geometry of Audi faces, but after some iteration I found a way to make it work. This solution for the grille face requires two black triangle stickers to be placed on the lower 1x1 white tiles (I used the extra black from a left over SC sticker sheet) to get the basic shape right since the angles of these details are sub-pixel for Lego, for lack of a better term. The DRL’s are achieved with more intricate shapes cut from the white area on an SC sticker sheet. They are so key to the look there is no way around it :) The basic layout of the front ended up being rather straight-forward and without stickers looks quite a lot like a current gen Charger sedan. The offset achieved by layering the 1x3 grille tile over part of both trans-black headlights helps to produce the right proportions for the grille and gives more dimension to the headlights.

Out back is a place where instead of stickers I have employed printed graphic inserts for the tail lights. In Illustrator I created black and white LED shapes for the tail lights and cut them to fit inside the 1x1 trans red tile and the 1x1 trans red slope. It has a nice, subtle scale detail effect that gets the car’s look much closer than the trans tiles were getting on their own. As with my GT350 build, I again used some left-over black sticker area to black out the interior/inset area of the white 1x1 panel tiles, which helps to visually unify the rear diffuser.

I ultimately built about 5 different roof racks (all too tall or too wide) and ended up back at this simple solution. The racks will be interesting for something later, but it kept looking more like a safari adventure than a rack for a sporty weekend outing so I took the clean and simple route.

I wanted this car to have a bit of a story, being a wagon/estate, so this also gave me a good reason to build a little picnic cooler, pick up an azure city bike and throw in a boombox. Hello local parks, here come some all-wheel burnouts!!

Taken on: February 22, 2018

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MOC

Speed Champions

Audi

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RS4 Avant

Avant

Estate

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